Ursula Schulz-Dornburg: Ansichten von Pagan, Burma / Views of Pagan, Burma (Bagan, Myanmar). Cologne: Studio DuMont Buchverlag, 1978. Large squarish 4to hardcover with dustjacket. 80 photographs and an introductory text by Rudolf Knubel in German. Great graphic design by Tünn Konnerding. Excellent copy with only minor wear to jacket. A…
FOTO: Rdo. Limited edition exhibition poster Rdo designed by Michael Jensen of KGRAFIK Copenhagen. Bolette photographed by Richard Winther. Winther (1926-2007), important Danish painter, sculptor, writer, photographer and more, largely unknown outside Denmark . Selfmade camera styles superficially with some resemblance to Miroslav Tichy. Richard Winter however was a very…
Space Poetry, 2005. 4to. Original black and white photoillustrated wrappers. Unpaginated. Fine copy Ebbe Stub Wittrup (Born 1973) contemporary Danish photographer. ‘Meanwhile Now’ was chosen as one the 28 most important Danish photo books for the catalogue and exhibition ’28 Danish Photographic Books’ (2006) in connection with exhibition ‘The Open…
“In the history of photography, that is to say the history of photography according to the art museum, color photography became an artistically viable medium around the early 1970s, with the emergence of such photographers as Stephen Shore and William Eggleston. However, in 1948 the Danish photographer Keld Helmer-Petersen prefigured their work by two decades or so…his aim was to make pictures that would only work in color, and not in black and white…he achieved his ends in a similar way to Shore or Eggleston, by concentrating on the mundane and the everyday…it deserves credit as a singular, remarkably early and largely successful attempt to make color photography work” Martin Parr & Gerry Badger in The Photobook, A History